O-linear Weil-pairing on abelian varieties with real multiplication

Question

Let $A/k$ be an abelian variety with real multiplication by some ring of integers $\mathcal O \subset F$. Let $n$ be an integer prime to the characteristic of $k$.

We have the standart $e_n$ pairing $A[n] \times A^\vee[n] \to \mu_n$. It satisfies $e_n(a \cdot x, y) = e_n(x, a \cdot y)$ for any $a \in \mathcal O$.

It is desirable to "extend" this pairing to an $\mathcal O$-linear pairing with respect to the $\mathcal O$-action on $A[n] \times A^\vee[n]$.

In Rapoprt's "Compactifications de l'espace de modules de Hilbert-Blumenthal" 1.21 we find such an extension:

$e_{n_{\mathcal O}} \colon A[n] \times A^\vee[n] \to (\mathcal D^{-1}/n\mathcal D^{-1})(1)$

where $\mathcal D$ is the different of $F$ and with $(1)$ we denote the Tate-twist. Concerning the definition of the pairing it is only said that $Tr(e_{n_{\mathcal O}}) = e_n$.

Can someone make this definition more explicit?

Answer 1

Yes, it's just a linear algebra stuff. Probably, it's more convenient to look at the Weil pairing between the $\ell$-adic Tate modules of $A$ and its dual, taking into account that these modules are free $O\otimes Z_{\ell}$-modules of the same rank.

From the linear algebra point of view the situation is as follows.

Let $e: M \times N \to P$ be a perfect pairing of free $Z_{\ell}$-modules $M$ and $N$ of the same rank that takes values in a free $Z_{\ell}$-module $P$ of rank $1$. Assume also that $M$ and $N$ are free $O\otimes Z_{\ell}$-modules of the same rank. Then we get a natural $Z_{\ell}$-linear map

$M \times N \to Hom_{Z_{\ell}}(O\otimes Z_{\ell}, P),$ $(m,n) \mapsto [a \mapsto e(ax,y)]$ for all $a \in O$. Taking into account that $$Hom_{Z_{\ell}}(O\otimes Z_{\ell}, Z_{\ell})=D^{-1}\otimes Z_{\ell}$$ (via the trace map), we get the natural pairing

$$M \times N \to P \otimes_{Z_{\ell}}[D^{-1}\otimes Z_{\ell}].$$ Here $M$ and $N$ are the Tate modules of $A$ and its dual while $P$ is $Z_{\ell}(1)$ and $e$ is the Weil pairing.